Info Worker

This update for Outlook 2007 adds support for the following Internet Calendar features:

Users can now respond to a meeting invitation that is received in iCalendar format with a proposal for a new meeting time.

Extended yearly recurrence patterns are now supported for appointments or meetings that recur every year or every several years.

This update also improves the compatibility between Outlook 2007 and some IMAP e-mail servers.

Download it here. Read more details about all the other fixes included in the rollup here.

If you check all the other fixes included, the combined total is pretty massive. I've been running this update for the past few days and Outlook seems to be a bit snappier overall.

I know VBA removal from Office 2008 was a highly inflammatory design decision, so I am happy to report that it is coming back.

Read more about it here.

(I just realized I don't have a Mac category/tag)

I can't say enough good things about this Outlook plugin. I even demoed it to the Windows Search v4 team at the Microsoft MVP Summit a few weeks ago and told them, "Make Windows Search do this!"

Originally introduced to me by my manager and another coworker, Xobni is finally available to everyone to download and install.

If you tried Xobni in the past and had performance problems in Outlook afterwards, that bug was fixed a few builds ago. If you don't know what Xobni is, read the press release here.

It is actually one of the only add-ins I use in Outlook. I normally avoid them. I love the analytics built into the interface and how it can pull phone numbers out of e-mail messages. I also like the fact that it keeps track of file attachments I have sent and received, per person.

Fun fact: Bill Gates uses it.

Note: This isn't a paid endorsement, but if they want to send me some coin, I'll gladly accept it.

Pretty neat. A little application does it for you, located here.

Web 2.0 convergence is upon us, little by little.